Hi, Pete For brief answer just skip to the down to the indented part.
This question is addressed in The Linux Documentation Project at <http://www.tldp.org/> (which turns ten years old today! Hurray!). There are two HOWTOs that pertain too your question: The Linux Keyboard and Console HOWTO in more technical and abstract (and less helpful, IMO) terms at: <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO.html>. The HOWTO covers a ton of info on linux keyboard & console; the section on numlock is Section 10 "The keyboard LEDs" at: <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO-10.html>. A briefer (and better IMO) answer is in the Configuration HOWTO at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO/index.html>. It's keyboard section is at <http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Config-HOWTO/x43.html#AEN64>. To quote this Configuration HOWTO: To enable NumLock on by default, add these lines to the startup script /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit: for tty in /dev/tty[1-9]*; do setleds -D +num < $tty done In this example, change the /dev/tty[1-9]* to however many consoles you have on startup; for example my distro (Slackware) defaults to having 6 initial consoles, so I would use: /dev/tty[1-6]* Also note that (AFAIK) you can only set the default numlock status for consoles that have been created; so if I boot up with the default of 6 consoles, but later create a new virtual terminal (with openvt), the new console would default to having numlock off. This also means that when you start X Windows, the numlock will most likely default to off as well. For X, I'm not sure how to set it to startup with numlock on. Probably simple, but I haven't taken the time to research it. Hope this helps, Conway S. Smith --------- .sig --------- Why do programmers confuse Halloween with Christmas? Because 31 OCT == 25 DEC. --------- .sig --------- -- Pete Shinners <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >i have my bios set to boot with numlock on. i always want numlock on. >linux seems to default to numlock off on all the terminals. if i could >just fix the X terminal that would be good enough, but is there a way >for all the terminals to have the numlock on? ________________________________________________________________ The best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
